Efficiency of Hospitals in the Czech Republic: Conditional Efficiency Approach

Lenka Stastna () and Jana Votapkova (Prochazkova) ()

No 2014/31, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: The paper estimates cost efficiency of 81 general hospitals in the Czech Republic during 2006-2010. We employ the conditional order-m approach which is a nonparametric method for efficiency computation accounting for environmental variables. Effects of environmental variables are assessed using the non-parametric significance test and partial regression plots. We find not-for-prot ownership and a presence of a specialized center in a hospital to be detrimental to hospital performance in the group of small and medium hospitals, while not-for-prot ownership is favorable to efficiency for big hospitals. Generally, hospital performance gets worse in period 2009-2010 because additional revenues received in form of user charges which were introduced in 2008 increase spending of hospitals. Only big hospitals proved to take some cost-saving measures as a reaction to financial crisis.

Keywords: Efficiency; hospitals; conditional order-m FDH; Czech Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26pages
Date: 2014-09, Revised 2014-09
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